Transition Town Wimbledon are trying to make Wimbledon into a more sustainable community. They are having an event in the Piazza near Morrisons on Wimbledon Broadway on Saturday 20th March. More details as they emerge.
See http://www.projectdirt.com/group/transitiontownwimbledon for further information
The idea to raise awareness of sustainable living and build local resilience in the near future to help deal with the twin threats of climate change and of “peak oil”. Communities are encouraged to seek out methods for reducing energy usage as well as increasing their own self reliance — a slogan of the movement is “Food feet, not food miles!”* Initiatives so far have included creating community gardens to grow food; business waste exchange, which seeks to match the waste of one industry with another industry that uses this waste; and even simply repairing old items rather than throwing them away.
Central to the Transition Town movement is the idea that a life without oil could in fact be far more enjoyable and fulfilling than the present “by shifting our mind-set we can actually recognise the coming post-cheap oil era as an opportunity rather than a threat, and design the future low carbon age to be thriving, resilient and abundant — somewhere much better to live than our current alienated consumer culture based on greed, war and the myth of perpetual growth.”
An essential aspect of Transition in many places, is that the outer work of transition needs to be matched by inner transition. That is in order to move down the energy descent pathways effectively we need to rebuild our relations with our selves, with each other and with the “natural” worlds. That requires focusing on the heart and soul of transition.
Echoes of both GardenLend and Leon Trotsky, I am pleased to note. **
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* http://blog.gardenlend.co.uk/2009/07/12/teamgreenbritain-meet-teamgardenlend/
** http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/
